By: Madla S.B. No. 1343 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to allowing the use of certain computerized voting 1-2 systems. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Title 8, Election Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Chapter 128 to read as follows: 1-6 CHAPTER 128. COMPUTERIZED VOTING SYSTEMS 1-7 Sec. 128.001. COMPUTERIZED VOTING SYSTEM STANDARDS. 1-8 (a) The secretary of state shall prescribe procedures to allow for 1-9 the use of a computerized voting system. The procedures must 1-10 provide for the use of a computerized voting system with: 1-11 (1) multiple voting terminals for the input of vote 1-12 selections on the ballot presented by a main computer; and 1-13 (2) a main computer to coordinate ballot presentation, 1-14 vote selection, ballot image storage, and result tabulation. 1-15 (b) Notwithstanding Chapter 66, a system under this section 1-16 may allow for the storage of processed ballot materials in an 1-17 electronic form on the main computer. 1-18 (c) The secretary of state may modify existing procedures as 1-19 necessary to allow the use of a system authorized by this chapter. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.